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- noun sports (US,
slang ) Afour square ball game term which basically meansspiking theball orslamming it down with a force to make it hard for a person to retrieve it to stay in the game. A cherry-bomb with an even more impressive force would be called a tree-top.
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Examples
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Gilliam, 63, who once owned a software company in Tysons Corner before he realized that he'd never be happy until he scratched that insistent childhood M-80 and cherry-bomb itch, chucked the tech world to run Skylighter., a fireworks supply warehouse in Loudoun County.
For fireworks enthusiasts, July 4 is one of many occasions to celebrate 2010
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Gilliam, 63, who once owned a software company in Tysons Corner before he realized that he'd never be happy until he scratched that insistent childhood M-80 and cherry-bomb itch, chucked the tech world to run Skylighter., a fireworks supply warehouse in Loudoun County.
For fireworks enthusiasts, July 4 is one of many occasions to celebrate 2010
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This is a pendulum swing from the 1960s, when there were fewer regulations and the blown-off fingers and hands from cherry-bomb explosions sparked a wave of bans.
For fireworks enthusiasts, July 4 is one of many occasions to celebrate 2010
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Gilliam, 63, who once owned a software company in Tysons Corner before he realized that he'd never be happy until he scratched that insistent childhood M-80 and cherry-bomb itch, chucked the tech world to run Skylighter., a fireworks supply warehouse in Loudoun County.
For fireworks enthusiasts, July 4 is one of many occasions to celebrate 2010
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This is a pendulum swing from the 1960s, when there were fewer regulations and the blown-off fingers and hands from cherry-bomb explosions sparked a wave of bans.
For fireworks enthusiasts, July 4 is one of many occasions to celebrate 2010
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This is a pendulum swing from the 1960s, when there were fewer regulations and the blown-off fingers and hands from cherry-bomb explosions sparked a wave of bans.
For fireworks enthusiasts, July 4 is one of many occasions to celebrate 2010
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The letters and numbers fairly exploded in your face and they had a relationship, they were plaited and knotted, pop-eyed cartoon humanoids, winding in and out of each other and sweaty hot and passion dancing—metallic silver and blue and cherry-bomb red and a number of neon greens.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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The letters and numbers fairly exploded in your face and they had a relationship, they were plaited and knotted, pop-eyed cartoon humanoids, winding in and out of each other and sweaty hot and passion dancing—metallic silver and blue and cherry-bomb red and a number of neon greens.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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The letters and numbers fairly exploded in your face and they had a relationship, they were plaited and knotted, pop-eyed cartoon humanoids, winding in and out of each other and sweaty hot and passion dancing—metallic silver and blue and cherry-bomb red and a number of neon greens.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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It went off unexpectedly, making a sound like the loudest cherry-bomb in the world.
The Warslayer Edghill, Rosemary 2002
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